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New law to increase transparency in campaign financing

Original post made
on Oct 16, 2012

A State Assembly bill now signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown will go into effect in January 2013, requiring more transparency by independent expenditure committees that fund ads for candidates and measures, especially local ones.

Posted by William Tell
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 17, 2012 at 7:34 am

If written by a Democrat, I'm sure it makes it easier to cover up public employee union donations while publicizing and/or limiting private sector donations. The sad thing is there are now more people on the take in California (public employee unions, illegals with handouts, natural born Americans on "da welfare" or some type of assitance) that this coalition can basically be out in the open about their support for Democrats and disdain for the taxpayor.

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